Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Quotes
Why does the new crime bill have so many new ways of killing people?
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Executive Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Teleconference, 30th Annual March on Washington, August 20, 1993
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Although this is generally followed as a legal principle in America, states like Texas have executed felons who most other jurisdictions would see as Coke’s “mad man.”
Einstein had changed his mind. He like almost everyone else at the time favored the death penalty, but in 1927 came to the new conclusion for the same reasons that many American politicians stated 70 years later. He had no compunctions against capital punishment for murderers who were dangers to society, but the potential error of the justice system led him to oppose state sanctioned execution. At the time the number of errors in capital cases that had been demonstrated were few. But as a scientist, Einstein knew that all human endeavors were prone to error. He was a strong law and order supporter however—see {588606}.
It would have been a great shock to her that 200 years later America was among the world leaders in capital punishment and England would have abolished it.
In 1812 England was in a major depression and workers were breaking their weaving frames in protest. Parliament was debating a bill that would provide the death penalty for such activity. 6th Baron Byron
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an African-American civil rights leader. In his youth, Chavis was an assistant to Martin Luther King Jr., who inspired him to work in the civil rights movement.
